U.K.'s Labour Wins Local Election as Conservatives Lose Ground

UKIP Steals Second Place From Conservatives, Underscoring Potential Threat

By

Nicholas Winning

Feb. 14, 2014 4:33 a.m. ET

LONDON—Britain's opposition Labour Party comfortably held a parliamentary seat in a by-election in northwest England while Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives were shunted into third place by the United Kingdom Independence Party, in a fresh sign the small anti-European Union party could pose a threat in next year's general election.

Mr. Cameron said Friday that the result was never in doubt because Wythenshawe and Sale East,...